5/16/2023 0 Comments French abandoned castle![]() Two hours south of the capital, Chateau de Freschines was once owned by a famous French scientist who was guillotined at the end of the French revolution. “The asking price was huge, there were competing American buyers interested and nobody knew of us in the area”. After nearly losing hope, the unlikely pair eventually bought it with the help of a good friend and benefactor from Sologne, a region near Paris known for its large hunting estates. “But it was a David & Goliath fight,” she says. “We fell in love with the Chateau de Freschines and its park without knowing its history or anything about the previous tenants,” remembers Valerie, a recent graduate in political science who first laid eyes on the property in 2017 with her mother, who was instantly inspired by the unthinkable challenge of leaving their lives behind in Austria to revive a neglected 400 year-old French chateau. Several years later, we’ve found a similar fairytale: an architect from Austria, Elisabeth Herring, and her daughter Valerie, adopt a neglected 16th century French chateau, except in this story, they’ve decided to open up the house to guests as a Bed & Breakfast almost from the very beginning, to be a part of their journey as they bring this sleeping beauty back to life… Rear facade © Chateau de Freschines Details © Chateau de Freschines © Chateau de Freschines Work in progress © Chateau de Freschines Valerie, pictured at the front of the chateau in Spring 2019 © Chateau de Freschines Widespread interest, longing and general FOMO (fear-of-missing-out) ensued on the internet. ![]() ![]() Back in 2013, we broke a story about a couple that bought an abandoned chateau and started a blog to share their journey.
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